Today's episode is a replay of a conversation I had with Annie Duke back in 2022.

It's an episode that really resonated with listeners, one of our five most downloaded shows of all time.

Quitting things is hard, and sometimes we need a little help. So hopefully this conversation can give you just the time. Quitting things is hard, and sometimes we need a little help. So hopefully this

conversation can give you just the tiny push you need to make a change.

My guest today, Annie Duke, is a psychologist turned poker player turned best-selling author.

Her focus in all of these endeavors, how to make better decisions.

I've had this realization that I never had stopped doing cognitive science.

Because the thing that I was obsessed with in graduate school, which was learning under conditions of uncertainty and uncertain

systems, was really what I was doing in poker.

Welcome to people I mostly admire with Steve Levitt.

In her latest book entitled Quit, The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, Annie tackles one of my

favorite subjects,

quitting. All sorts of systematic biases have been laid bare by the field of behavioral economics,

but in my opinion, not quitting soon enough is the most costly mistake people are making in

their everyday lives. But I haven't had much success in convincing people that's the case.

Hopefully, Annie Duke is more persuasive than I am.

So, Annie, a couple of times on this podcast, I've offered my guests one of the highest

compliments I can give.

I've called them a quitter.

How would you feel if I called you a quitter?

Well, knowing you, I would feel complimented.

Because you just written a new book, and it's called Quit, The Power of Knowing When to Walk

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